You discover that the website is experiencing increased average response time during periods of heavy user activity.

You need to update the website configuration to address the performance issues as they occur.

What should you do?

A.

Set the website to Standard mode and configure automatic scaling based on CPU utilization.

B.

Configure automatic seating during specific dates.

C.

Modify the website instance size.

D.

Configure automatic scaling based on memory utilization.

E.

Set the website to Basic mode and configure automatic scaling based on CPU utilization.

Correct Answer: A

Explanation:

Scaling to Standard Plan Mode

Selecting Standard expands the Capacity section to reveal the Instance Size and Instance Count options, which are also available in Basic mode. The Edit Scale Settings for Schedule and Scale by Metric options are available only in Standard mode.

Note:

For increased performance and throughput for your websites on Microsoft Azure, you can use the Azure Management Portal to scale your Web Hosting Plan mode from Free to Shared, Basic, or Standard.

There are 2 options for scaling:

Based on a Schedule

Based on CPU usage

Reference: Azure, How to Scale Websites

QUESTION 32

Your company network has two physical locations configured in a geo-clustered environment. You create a Blob storage account in Azure that contains all the data associated with your company.

You need to ensure that the data remains available in the event of a site outage.

Which storage option should you enable?

A.

Locally redundant storage

B.

Geo-redundant storage

C.

Zone-redundant storage

D.

Read-only geo-redundant storage

Correct Answer: D

Explanation:

Introducing Read-only Access to Geo Redundant Storage (RA-GRS):

RA-GRS allows you to have higher read availability for your storage account by providing “read only” access to the data replicated to the secondary location. Once you enable this feature, the secondary location may be used to achieve higher availability in the event the data is not available in the primary region. This is an “opt-in” feature which requires the storage account be geo-replicated.

Your service level agreement (SLA) requires that you are notified in the event of poor performance from customer locations in the US, Asia, and Europe.

You need to configure the Azure Management Portal to notify you when the SLA performance targets are not met.

What should you do?

A.

Create an alert rule to monitor web endpoints.

B.

Create a Notification Hub alert with response time metrics.

C.

Add an endpoint monitor and alert rule to the Notification Hub.

D.

Configure the performance counter on the cloud service.

Correct Answer: A

Explanation:

* An alert rule enables you to monitor an available metric within a supported Azure service. When the value of a specified metric violates the threshold assigned for a rule, the alert rule becomes active and registers an alert. When you create an alert rule, you can select options to send an email notification to the service administrator and co- administrators, or another administrator, when the rule becomes active, and when an alert condition is resolved.

* You can configure cloud service alert rules on:

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Web endpoint status metrics

Monitoring metrics from the cloud service host operating system Performance counters collected from the cloud service guest virtual machine

Understanding Monitoring Alerts and Notifications in Azure

URL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn306639.aspx

QUESTION 34

You administer an Azure Storage account named contoso storage. The account has queue containers with logging enabled.

You need to view all log files generated during the month of July 2014.

All logs are stored in block blobs in a container named $logs, which is automatically created when Storage Analytics is enabled for a storage account. The $logs container is located in the blob namespace of the storage account, for example:

http://<accountname>.blob.core.windows.net/$logs. This container cannot be deleted once Storage Analytics has been enabled, though its contents can be deleted.

Note: Each log will be written in the following format:

<service-name>/YYYY/MM/DD/hhmm/<counter>.log

References:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/azure/hh343262.aspx

QUESTION 35

You manage a cloud service that utilizes an Azure Service Bus queue.

You need to ensure that messages that are never consumed are retained.

What should you do?

A.

Check the MOVE TO THE DEAD-LETTER SUBQUEUE option for Expired Messages in the Azure Portal.

B.

From the Azure Management Portal, create a new queue and name it Dead-Letter.

C.

Execute the Set-AzureServiceBus PowerShell cmdlet.

D.

Execute the New-AzureSchedulerStorageQueueJob PowerShell cmdlet.

Correct Answer: A

Explanation:

The EnableDeadLetteringOnMessageExpiration property allows to enable\disable the dead-lettering on message expiration.

Reference:

Azure, Managing and Testing Topics, Queues and Relay Services with the Service Bus Explorer Tool

QUESTION 36

You plan to use Password Sync on your DirSync Server with Azure Active Directory {Azure AD) on your company network. You configure the DirSync server and complete an initial synchronization of the users.

Several remote users are unable to log in to Office 365. You discover multiple event log entries for “Event ID 611 Password synchronization failed for domain.”

You need to resolve the password synchronization issue.

Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

A.

Restart Azure AD Sync Service.

B.

Run the Set-FullPasswordSync Power Shell cmdlet.

C.

Force a manual synchronization on the DirSync server.

D.

Add the DirSync service account to the Schema Admins domain group.

Correct Answer: AB

Explanation:

On the computer that has the Azure Active Directory Sync tool installed, follow these steps:

Perform a full password sync for all users who are synced through directory synchronization. To do this, follow these steps:

Set-FullPasswordSync

Restart the Forefront Identity Manager Synchronization Service. To do this, follow these steps:

You need to create a secure connection for the remote employees who require access to your Azure virtual network.

What should you do?

A.

Deploy Windows Server 2012 RRAS.

B.

Configure a point-to-site VPN.

C.

Configure an ExpressRoute.

D.

Configure a site-to-site VPN.

Correct Answer: B

Explanation:

New Point-To-Site Connectivity

With today’s release
we’ve added an awesome new feature that allows you to setup VPN connections between individual computers and a Windows Azure virtual network without the need for a VPN device. We call this feature Point-to-Site Virtual Private Networking. This feature greatly simplifies setting up secure connections between Windows Azure and client machines, whether from your office environment or from remote locations.

It is especially useful for developers who want to connect to a Windows Azure Virtual Network (and to the individual virtual machines within it) from either behind their corporate firewall or a remote location. Because it is point-to-site they do not need their IT staff to perform any activities to enable it, and no VPN hardware needs to be installed or configured. Instead you can just use the built-in Windows VPN client to tunnel to your Virtual Network in Windows Azure.

You have an Azure SQL Database named Contosodb. Contosodb is running in the Standard/S2 tier and has a service level objective of 99 percent.

You review the service tiers in Microsoft Azure SQL Database as well as the results of running performance queries for the usage of the database for the past week as shown in the exhibits. (Click the Exhibits button.)

For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No.

Correct Answer:

QUESTION 39

You manage a cloud service named fabrikamReports that is deployed in an Azure data center.

You deploy a virtual machine (VM) named fabrikamSQL into a virtual network named fabrikamVNet.

FabrikamReports must communicate with fabrikamSQL.

You need to add fabrikam Reports to fabrikamVNet.

Which file should you modify?

A.

the network configuration file for fabrikamVNet

B.

the service definition file (.csdef) for fabrikamReports

C.

the service definition file (.csdef) for fabrikamSQL

D.

the service configuration file (.cscfg) for fabrikamReports

E.

the service configuration file (.cscfg) fabrikamSQL

Correct Answer: D

Explanation:

The service configuration file specifies the number of role instances to deploy for each role in the service, the values of any configuration settings, and the thumbprints for any certificates associated with a role. If the service is part of a Virtual Network, configuration information for the network must be provided in the service configuration file, as well as in the virtual networking configuration file. The default extension for the service configuration file is .cscfg.

References:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/ee758710.aspx

QUESTION 40

HOTSPOT

You manage two websites for your company. The sites are hosted on an internal server that is beginning to experience performances issues due to high traffic.

You plan to migrate the sites to Azure Web Sites.

The sites have the following configurations:

In the table below, identity the web hosting plan with the lowest cost for each site. Make only one selection in each column.